GCN Circular 43552
Subject
EP260128a: LCO optical upper limits
Event
Date
2026-01-29T07:47:19Z (2 days ago)
From
Jonathan Quirola at Radboud University <jaquirola1990@gmail.com>
Via
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J. A. Quirola-Vasquez (Radboud), J. N. D. van Dalen (Radboud), J. Chacón(PUC), A. Martin-Carrillo (UCD), P. G. Jonker (Radboud), A. J. Levan (Radboud), D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud), and F. E. Bauer (SSI and UTA) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
We observed the field of the fast X-ray transient EP260128a (Zhou et al., GCN 43549) using an LCO 1m telescope located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (Chile) equipped with the SINISTRO instrument. A series of 6x300 s exposures was taken in each of the SDSS-r filter, starting on 2026-01-29 at 02:05:48 UT (2.43 hr after the trigger).
No new source is detected within or at the border of the EP/FXT uncertainty region (Zhou et al., GCN 43549) compared to Legacy DR11. From the stacked images, we obtain the following 3-sigma upper limits:
r > 22.5
These upper limits are in AB magnitudes, calibrated using nearby stars from the Pan-STARRS catalog, and are not corrected for Galactic extinction.